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Biology and Biochemistry
Switzerland
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
122
Citations
45563
World Ranking
591
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Switzerland Leader Award
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Uwe Sauer is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Food Science, and Pharmacology.

Their work covers several main topics, such as:

  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

Uwe Sauer has contributed to publications in a range of scientific journals and venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Molecular Systems Biology
  • Cell Host & Microbe
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics: a guide for annotation, quantification and best reporting practices, 2021, Nature Methods
  • Metabolic cooperation and spatiotemporal niche partitioning in a kefir microbial community, 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • A universal trade-off between growth and lag in fluctuating environments, 2020, Nature
  • Arginine reprograms metabolism in liver cancer via RBM39, 2023, Cell
  • Reconfiguration of metabolic fluxes in Pseudomonas putida as a response to sub-lethal oxidative stress, 2021, The ISME Journal

Frequent co-authors with whom Uwe Sauer has collaborated include:

  • Sammy Pontrelli
  • Tobias Fuhrer
  • Andreas Sichert
  • Roman Stocker
  • Julian Trouillon

Best Publications

  • Robustness of cellular functions

    Jörg Stelling;Uwe Sauer;Zoltan Szallasi;Francis J. Doyle

  • The maternal microbiota drives early postnatal innate immune development

    Mercedes Gomez de Agüero;Stephanie C. Ganal-Vonarburg;Tobias Fuhrer;Sandra Rupp

  • Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics: a guide for annotation, quantification and best reporting practices

    Saleh Alseekh;Asaph Aharoni;Yariv Brotman;Kevin Contrepois

  • Systematic evaluation of objective functions for predicting intracellular fluxes in Escherichia coli

    Robert Schuetz;Lars Kuepfer;Uwe H. Sauer

  • Metabolic networks in motion: 13C-based flux analysis

    Uwe H. Sauer

  • The PEP-pyruvate-oxaloacetate node as the switch point for carbon flux distribution in bacteria.

    Uwe Sauer;Bernhard J. Eikmanns

  • A consensus yeast metabolic network reconstruction obtained from a community approach to systems biology

    Markus Herrgard;Neil Swainston;Paul Dobson;Warwick B. Dunn

  • A roadmap for interpreting 13 C metabolite labeling patterns from cells

    Joerg M. Buescher;Maciek R. Antoniewicz;Laszlo G. Boros;Shawn C Burgess

  • The Soluble and Membrane-bound Transhydrogenases UdhA and PntAB Have Divergent Functions in NADPH Metabolism of Escherichia coli*

    Uwe Sauer;Fabrizio Canonaco;Sylvia Heri;Annik Perrenoud

  • 13 C-based metabolic flux analysis

    Nicola Zamboni;Sarah-Maria Fendt;Martin Rühl;Uwe Sauer

  • Coordination of microbial metabolism

    Victor Chubukov;Luca Gerosa;Karl Kochanowski;Uwe Sauer

  • Quantitative Phosphoproteomics Reveal mTORC1 Activates de Novo Pyrimidine Synthesis

    Aaron M. Robitaille;Stefan Christen;Mitsugu Shimobayashi;Marion Cornu

  • A Map of Protein-Metabolite Interactions Reveals Principles of Chemical Communication

    Ilaria Piazza;Karl Kochanowski;Valentina Cappelletti;Tobias Fuhrer

  • The outer mucus layer hosts a distinct intestinal microbial niche

    Hai Li;Julien Periclis Jean Limenitakis;Tobias Fuhrer;Markus Geuking

  • Multidimensional optimality of microbial metabolism

    Robert Schuetz;Nicola Zamboni;Mattia Zampieri;Matthias Heinemann

  • Metabolic flux profiling of Escherichia coli mutants in central carbon metabolism using GC‐MS

    Eliane Fischer;Uwe Sauer

  • Experimental identification and quantification of glucose metabolism in seven bacterial species.

    Tobias Fuhrer;Eliane Fischer;Uwe Sauer

  • Metabolic flux ratio analysis of genetic and environmental modulations of Escherichia coli central carbon metabolism.

    Uwe Sauer;Daniel R. Lasko;Jocelyne Fiaux;Michel Hochuli

  • Disentangling metabolic functions of bacteria in the honey bee gut.

    Lucie Kešnerová;Ruben A. T. Mars;Kirsten M. Ellegaard;Michaël Troilo

  • Evolutionary engineering of industrially important microbial phenotypes

    Uwe Sauer

  • Large-scale 13C-flux analysis reveals mechanistic principles of metabolic network robustness to null mutations in yeast.

    Lars M. Blank;Lars Kuepfer;Uwe H. Sauer

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicola Zamboni
Nicola Zamboni ETH Zurich
Matthias Heinemann
Matthias Heinemann University of Groningen
Stéphane Aymerich
Stéphane Aymerich University of Paris-Saclay
Thomas Szyperski
Thomas Szyperski University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Paola Picotti
Paola Picotti ETH Zurich
Wolfgang P. Schröder
Wolfgang P. Schröder Umeå University
Jörg Stelling
Jörg Stelling ETH Zurich

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